The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMEEICAUr BIOGRAPHY. 123. JOHNSON, David Bancroft, educator, wasborn in La Grange (West Tenn.), Jan. 10, 1856,where his father founded, and until his death, waspresident of the
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . OF AMEEICAUr BIOGRAPHY. 123. JOHNSON, David Bancroft, educator, wasborn in La Grange (West Tenn.), Jan. 10, 1856,where his father founded, and until his death, waspresident of the La Grange Female college. In adirect line he is descended from John Johnson whocame to America from England with Winthrop, thefirst governor of the colony of Massachusetts. HeworJied his way through the University of Tennesseeat Knoxville, from which hewas graduated with the high-est honors of a large class in1877, and immediately tookup tlie profession of teachingas first assistant of the boyshigh school at some service in theUniversity of Tennessee, asassistant professor of math-ematics, and having devel-oped qualities which de-manded a larger sphere fortheir full exercise, he enteredupon his life work. His raretalent, as an organizer, wasrecognized, and by his mas-terful application of the trueprinciples of teaching, he in-fused new life into the systemof public instruction, and a spirit and enthusiasmamong the teache
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